The Dogs Playing

So the craziest thing that has been going on in Kodiak lately is the weather!  It has been snowing and raining all weekend, with moments of incredible sun and extreme stillness and extreme wind!  This morning Gus and I were so frustrated with all the slush, ice and snow we just wanted to scream (maybe that was just me).  Anyway, after we got back from my run Gus and Roscoe started playing.  This has become quite common in our tiny home and Stephen and I love watching it.  So enjoy! 

Winter Storm Kodiak Style

**Personal Note - I love how excited Stephen is in this clip!

Just a hour before we took this film we found out that a boat had flipped over just a few hundred feet out from where we were.  The captain of the boat died and the other man was in pretty bad shape.  They were trying to come into Kodiak in 16 f

t. seas.  Please remember in prayer all the families that have lost loved ones this winter.  

A Kodiak Winter Storm!

This is a winter storm in Kodiak.  Yesterday the wind was blowing about 50 to 80 mph and the waves were crashing into Mill Bay Beach.  We thought we'd catch a little video outside the car and then realized that we along with you all wouldn't be able to see anything!  So enjoy the clips!  

The Newest Addition

We'd like to take this moment to introduce Gus or as we like to call him GusGus.  He's a Siberian Husky and we can hardly believe we have him.  I went to a training in Anchorage and one of the instructors of a class does dog sledding.  Well Gus wasn't quite good enough to make the team (just a little to slow) so he brought him with him the next day and before I knew it Gustaf was on a plane to Kodiak. Anyway, there's so much more to the story, but I'm extremely tired and will explain more later.  

For now, keep us all in your prayers and we transition a little bit.  Gus is a great running partner, but Roscoe still isn't to sure about him.  

Everything So Quickly!

Life changes so quickly.  Just a month ago Stephen and I were just getting back into the swing of things wondering how we were going to make it through the crazy month of January.  It's hard to believe that it's already February 3rd and a month has already come and gone.  It's been quite a snowy one here.  Stephen, I and Roscoe enjoyed snow shoeing and skating but worked quite a bit.  Both of us were sick and are still trying to completely get rid of the Kodiak crud!  And we feel more blessed than ever for the amazing life the Lord has given to us.  

I've actually been doing a lot of reading and love it!  Stephen and I have both read The Shack and would highly recommend it for EVERYONE!  We both feel that it is such an amazing read.  Well with all the amazing blessings the Lord has given to us there are always some truly amazing things that have happened and my next blog will tell all about the most recent of the Lord's workings.  

Some Random Stories from our Week

I have to share with all of you a short, but wonderful piece of Stephen and my life! Many of you only here a small portion of what gones on up here and most of what you here is little weekend adventures we take. Well it's Friday morning and I'm feeling the need to share some of the things that make up our crazy week. So enjoy:)
KBM has a skate trailer full of well, . . . skates and helmets. Anyway somehow it has become my job to make sure people get the skates and all that. Well I've come to dislike the skate trailer, mostly because every time I'm at the rink it is soooo cold. Well we were doing skating with one of our after school programs and it was not only extremely cold, but the wind gust were incredible, creating these white out conditions. Well I was trying to move to huge tubs of helmets from the skate trailer to the rink, when one of these gust came up. It completely flipped me around and did all it could to take the tubs from my grips. I held on for dear life only to then fall into the skate trailer. I wanted to cry, mostly from my frustration.
Stephen meets with kids throughout the week. Well he was meeting with one boy and they were trying to come up with a way to keep all the mean and angry thoughts away and they came up with this spray bottle that the boy had to spray to turn angry mean thoughts and things into happy nice thoughts. About mid week Stephen received this amazing e-mail from the boy, over joyed that this spray bottle was really helping keep all the scary stuff away!
Many people know Stephen has a wild imagination. Well he was taking a walk with another student he meets with and it happened to be very foggy. Now this boy is a tall kid, actually just as tall or taller than Stephen. Anyway Stephen started letting his imagination run wild, telling the boy they'd better be careful on their walk because with the dense fog it was probably they would get lost, or even separated. This boy took my husbands words very seriously and insisted that they hold hands. I can only imagine how cute it must have looked to see Stephen and this tall young man walking through the playground hand in hand.
We're in the mist of exciting days at the Mission. We're preparing to build a big Heritage Center (with a new gym!!) Well yesterday we were doing some preliminary digging and low and behold we dug up a big wooden box. What was in the box, you might ask? A horse! Yes, we dug up a horse and no, it was not one we had buried and can you believe it was in a horse casket. Amazing.
Another really big thing this week has been sickness. Alot of kids have been sick and it's the coming out of both directions sick (not fun at all!) I won't go into detail, but I caught it on Tuesday (made for a long day!) But besides from a little Kodiak Crud that Stephen and I have, we're doing ok!
Ok, well I know this was all very random, and there are so many more little stories, but this will have to do for now.

Ice!

I never thought that I would run on ice growing up.  It sounded impossible to me and had someone told me then that I would morning after morning wake before the sun to run for over an hour on ice I would have said they were crazy.  But that is exactly what I do and I've found that waking before the sun is much more difficult than running on ice. 

It started raining about mid week and our snow turned to thick sheets of ice.  Stephen, Bryant and I headed out to see some of the impressive ice that formed on Dead Man's Curve. Throughout most of the year water shoots from wholes in the thick black rock.  It always makes me thick of Moses and I wonder just how much more magnificent it must have been to see water come from that rock.  (Excuse my tangent).  Anyway the water that normally streams from these rocks has turned into ice walls.  Pretty impressive.